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From: ccs009@ucdavis.UUCP (Dennis Michaels)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The secret history of the headgear microphone
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 06:16:57 EDT
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> 
> >      What exactly IS a "Kate Bush microphone?"  Is it like a headset?
> >      Do you have to look like Kate Bush to wear one?  Somone clue me
> >      in, please...
> 
> For KB's concert tour in 79 she wanted to dance, mime, and sing at the
> same time.  She felt this would be very difficult while holding a
> microphone, so she had a special headgear microphone system designed for
> her.  Now these microphones are becoming the biggest rage since the
> hula-hoop.
> 				-Doug Alan

	Just for the record ( no pun ) Peter Gabriel ( demi-god among men )
has been using those little buggers for quite some time ( he has a very
physical show including letting the crowd carry him on their hands while
singing 'Lay your hands on me' (( also his band uses them to roam the audien
ce also)) ) .  Now I dont know which came first , the bush or the pete, but
I know its close... The point is more than one artist has helped popularize
both wireless instrument pickups and mikes.....
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